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graduates from different universities. I took a seat by
the end of the long queue, waiting to be called in.
Just as I sat down, I saw a young man going out from
the inner room where jobs were being assigned to
university graduates. The young man was very angry.
He was a graduate from a very famous university in
Beijing. He was a major in semiconductors.
He complained loudly, “I have been assigned to
a workshop to make harnesses. I have a major in
semiconductors, yet I have been assigned to a
workshop that makes harnesses! Anyone could work
as a horse tools worker. It does not need knowledge!
It does not need science! I have studied engineering
for five years. But I have studied it in vain! I will
give up the job! I will go home!” He shed tears of
grief and indignation.
He did go home. His home was in the south of
China. But later, I was told that his parents had
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